A double Sylvester determinant
Rings and Algebras
2026-04-16 v3 Combinatorics
Abstract
Given two -matrices and over a commutative ring, and some , we consider the -matrix whose entries are -minors of multiplied by corresponding -minors of . Here we require the minors to use the last row and the last column (which is why we obtain an -matrix, not an -matrix). We prove that the determinant is a multiple of if the -th entry of is . Furthermore, if the -th entries of both and are , then is a multiple of . This extends a previous result of Olver and the author ( arXiv:1802.02900 ).
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@article{arxiv.1901.11109,
title = {A double Sylvester determinant},
author = {Darij Grinberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.11109},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
16 pages. Slightly more detailed version available as ancillary file. Comments are welcome! v3 corrects some typos and updates references